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      Drunk driver blames DUI on LeBron

      July 14, 2010 /

      Good find by The Last Angry Fan:

      According to police reports, police stopped the driver, a 30-year-old Flint man, after watching his vehicle drift over the center line and the shoulder of the road at 2:40 a.m. July 11 on Maple Road near Maplebrook Apartments.

      Police reported that the man appeared to be intoxicated. When asked if he’d been drinking the man said that he had been drinking, and it was because LeBron James had decided to play for the Miami Heat instead of the Boston Celtics (James had actually turned down an opportunity to play for the Cleveland Cavaliers).

      A breath test revealed that the man’s alcohol level was 0.16 percent. The man was cited for driving while intoxicated. Police reports did not indicate if the man was taken to jail or released.

      The original story is at MLive.

      There are a couple of funny things about this story: 1) the man lives in Flint, but he claims to be a Cavs fan, not a Pistons fan, and 2) he was upset that LeBron was going to the Celtics, not the Heat. Dumb, da-dumb, dumb….DUMB!

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      NBA free agency, in haiku!

      July 13, 2010 /

      You know you’re burned out on NBA news and rumors when you decide to write 10 haiku to summarize the NBA Summer of 2010. Off we go (in the English 5-7-5 syllable format)…

      Atlanta spends big
      to keep twenty-eight year-old
      Here comes the remorse

      Wade, Bosh, then LeBron
      Super Friends in Miami
      Much to Dan’s chagrin

      No doubt cathartic
      Dan Gilbert’s manifesto
      only hurts the Cavs

      Pat Riley, the pimp
      But they have to play the games
      There’s still work to do

      Continue reading »

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      The upside of Dan Gilbert’s rant

      July 13, 2010 /

      Henry Abbott of TrueHoop writes that there is a ‘non-trivial benefit’ to Dan Gilbert’s LeBron manifesto.

      That letter, though … while it did a lot of bad things for Gilbert, it completely inoculated him from anyone ever saying that he traded away LeBron James. He cemented his place as the betrayed, which gave him carte blanche to take part in a sign-and-trade, because everyone knows without a shred of doubt that Gilbert didn’t ship James would leave town. That this was Gilbert’s idea is officially crazy talk, now.

      Abbott is a sharp guy, and I usually agree with what he has to say, but I don’t think there is any chance that — without this manifesto — Dan Gilbert would be blamed for trading LeBron away. Almost 10 million people tuned into LeBachelor and everyone knows that it was LeBron’s choice and his alone. Had Gilbert stayed quiet and worked out a trade that netted his team a couple of first round draft picks (like they eventually did), no one would have ever said that he traded LeBron James away. And he might be able to sign a big-name free agent someday. I’m not so sure that’s the case now.

      Gilbert’s letter did far more harm than good.

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      Reggie Jackson defends LeBron James

      July 12, 2010 /

      While appearing on the Dan Patrick Show on Monday, former Yankee Reggie Jackson stuck up for LeBron James for signing with the Heat.

      From SI.com:

      Reggie thinks people are unfairly criticizing LeBron James. “I’m not offended at all that he did that,” Jackson said. Reggie said that he would have done that if he thought it would save time and effort.

      Reggie said if he was in the same position, he would have loved to join his friends. Reggie would have loved to play with his good friend Jim Rice in Boston. “I would have loved to join those guys,” Jackson said.

      Jackson also pointed out LeBron could have made more money in another sport. “If LeBron James was in baseball, he’d probably be playing for the Yankees,” Jackson said.

      I think more people are upset with the way LeBron went about this process than they are that he signed with the Heat. Are we really surprised that a 25-year-old picked South Beach over Cleveland? Are we really surprised that he chose the path of least resistance in order to win a championship? Are we really surprised that he wanted to play with D-Wade and Bosh?

      We shouldn’t be. So in some instances, I agree with Jackson that the criticism of LeBron is unfair. What he should be criticized for is giving up on the Cavs in the playoffs last year when he knew he was heading out of town. He should be criticized for not being more sympathetic to the city that treated him like a “king” for eight years. It’s nice that a lot of money from the ESPN special went to charity, but he probably could have just given the Boys and Girls club a check and just held a press conference, too.

      The bottom line for me is that LeBron could have handled the situation better, but I’m not going to rip the man for the decision to sign with the Heat.

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      Jason Whitlock blasts Jesse Jackson regarding comments made about LeBron

      July 12, 2010 /
      WASHINGTON - APRIL 29: Jesse Jackson (R) greets former Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry (L) at the funeral service for civil rights leader Dorothy Height at the Washington National Cathedral April 29, 2010 in Washington, DC. Height led the National Council of Negro Women and marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

      After Dan Gilbert’s ill-advised open letter to Cavs fans, which called LeBron’s decision to sign with the Heat a “betrayal,” Jesse Jackson had some choice words for the Cavs owner.

      “He speaks as an owner of LeBron and not the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers,” the reverend said in a release from his Chicago-based civil rights group, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. “His feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave. This is an owner employee relationship — between business partners — and LeBron honored his contract.”

      While I agree that Gilbert’s letter was out of line — LeBron had every right to sign with whatever team he chose — there’s no need to invoke slavery with regard to the relationship between owner and player.

      Jason Whitlock had this to say about Jackson’s comments.

      Yep, it’s the card. LeBron James and his kiddie handlers screwed up, staging an image-damaging public-relations disaster, and now some African-Americans want to change the subject by changing the argument.

      NBA owners and their $100-million contracts are slave owners and King James is Kunta Kinte escaping on the Underground Railroad to Miami’s Tootsie’s Cabaret, where he’ll make it rain.

      It’s stupid. Dan Gilbert’s rant was certainly immature, but it wasn’t remotely racist. He sounded like a scorned lover, a guy who gave his heart to a relationship and found out on national TV that the alleged love of his life didn’t care about him at all.

      Gilbert vented. I give James credit for not responding.

      It’s increasingly clear that people fault LeBron not for leaving Cleveland but for the way he left Cleveland. Gilbert’s letter, while none too smart, wasn’t racist at all.

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